Tuesday, June 19, 2012

You're in Time Out!

It's been quite a while since I have had to utter those words to my daughter (those conversations would be more like "you lost the car for 2 days now" - and we haven't had that issue come up yet) but I have had to speak those words to my knitting. Several. Times. This. Weekend. On every project I touched. And it's not ending. Oaklet is such an easy pattern, yet I seem to forget to READ THE DIRECTIONS. Now that I am at the edging I have had to rip it back twice. And last night I realized I have to rip it back again because I skipped two rows. I got so aggravated I started a pair of socks (with a pattern - what WAS I thinking?) and had to rip those back as well (much smaller scale so it wasn't heart breaking). Each time I rip back I need to put the project down and walk away for a while. I'm determined to finish Oaklet for Thursday's post, so the time outs a brief.

With all these errors, I cannot wrap my head around starting Evenstar. The damage that could ensue is mind shattering with all those charts. It will be the next shawl I cast on, but with the realization that I cannot knit that at social events, I need to have another project to work on as well. I have been loving Color Affection and wanted to use my stash yarn to knit it. I went through my piles a few times and couldn't come up with any color combos that knocked my socks off. And then I came up with one.

What do you think? It was a bit hard to capture the colors in them morning light.

The variegated skeins are ones I dyed and the solid purple is some sock yarn I bought years ago at Elann for some insanely cheap price.

I know the colors are bright but that seems to be what I am attracted to knitting during the summer. After I get Evenstar going I will cast this on next to have to bring to knitting events.

5 comments:

Those colors and yarns are awesome! my all time favs! Your project will be stunning! So glad I found your blog today. I'm a stitcher from across the river in NJ. Very nice to meet you my NY neightbor :)

I LOVE THE COLORS!!!!!!! They are gorgeous together!! At least you are knitting. I have NOTHING on the needles and nothing is calling to me to be knit :-/ But that doesn't stop me from drooling all over the yarns I see! :-)

So frustrating, isn't it? Patterns please and infuriate me in equal measures. For knitting at social events I tend to have a simple project lined up or a part of a project that is st. st. at the stage it is at or something. I can't do patterns in public unless they're easy enough to remember in my head.